Posts Tagged ‘Charlton MA Police’

On Saturday, December 15th, many local police departments will be taking part in a “Goods For Guns” campaign. Local residents with unwanted or unsafe firearms will be able to take them to a participating police station and trade them in for gift cards for local supermarkets. For each operable gun, you will receive $25 per…

First responders have to be prepared for anything that may be sent their way. Anything from car accidents, to robberies or even violent crime. On Tuesday, June 5th the Charlton Police Department received a call for a mother duck in distress on Route 20. When Officers arrived, they found 8 ducklings had fallen into a…

On Monday night Charlton Police, known for their witty Facebook posts, took to social media to thank a local teenager and her mother. “Emily and her mom, Karyn, flagged down one of our cruisers today to present the Officer’s in our department with our own Police Officer Survival Kit,” the post read. The duo presented…

Route 20 in Charlton was shut down for a short while on the afternoon of Monday, April 16th after a vehicle traveling west crashed near City Power. The vehicle, traveling faster than the posted speed limit, hydroplaned and struck a telephone pole, then spun around and hit a large boulder. The vehicle flipped on its…

On Friday, March 2nd at 1:30PM, two vehicles traveling on Route 20 in Charlton were involved in a road rage incident. Police are still looking for the owner of a red vehicle that got away from the scene. Charlton Police say the initial confrontation occurred near Carpenter Hill Road and continued east on Route 20…

In a letter sent out to students and parents of the Dudley-Charlton School Department on Thursday, Superintendent Gregg Desto made the public aware that he had been notified that a driver found an empty .22 caliber firearm clip in the glove compartment of a bus that had been transporting students to and from school. Desto’s letter…

A big truck and low-hanging wires lead to this telephone pole snapping in half on Dresser Hill Road in Charlton on Tuesday afternoon. The roadway was shut down for several hours while National Grid worked on replaced the pole. No one was injured in the accident.

Icy roads and speed contributed to this accident on Route 20 in Charlton this morning. Charlton Police say that this Chrysler was traveling east around 9AM on Sunday when it passed another vehicle and hit a patch of black ice. The vehicle skidded across the roadway into the westbound lane and collided with a signpost…

Join the Winter Acoustic Tour with Cameron Sutphin on Saturday, January 26, from 2-4 PM. Singer/Songwriter Cameron Sutphin celebrates his return to New England from Nashville with an acoustic tour with a stop at Booklovers’…